National
Animal is Tiger Large Asiatic carnivorous
feline quadruped, Panthera Tigris, maneless,
of tawny
yellow colour
with
blackish transverse stripes and white belly,
proverbial for its power and its magnificence.There
are very few tigers left in the world today.
A decade ago the tiger population in India had
dwindled
to a few hundreds. The Government of India, under
its Project Tiger programme, started a massive effort
to preserve the tiger population. Today, thanks to
Project Tiger, India's population of tigers has considerably
increased
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